After rolling through the round-robin, the Estevan Sherritt Coal Bruins came up just short in the A final of a peewee tournament in Portage la Prairie, Man., on the weekend.
The peewee AA squad went 4-0 in the round-robin, including a win over the Portage Terriers in their last game, but fell 2-1 to the same Terriers in the final.
Ryder Pierson had the team's lone goal in that game, which saw Portage score the winner on a power play with three minutes remaining.
The Bruins began the tournament with a 10-3 win over Shoal Lake on Friday. Cole Fonstad led the charge with five goals. J.D. Gervais had two, with Pierson, Reegan Robinson and Hayden Cutler adding singles.
On Saturday, the Bruins topped the St. Boniface Seals 6-4. Fonstad and Carson Benning had two goals apiece, with Mason Strutt and Cutler also scoring.
Later that day, the Bruins slaughtered the Thompson King Miners 16-0. Fonstad had five goals, Cutler scored four, and the Bruins got two each from Pierson and Colton Schell. Strutt, Terran Holzer and Jake Palmer added singles.
In their final round-robin game on Sunday, the Bruins edged the Terriers 6-5.
Fonstad and Strutt each scored a pair, with Benning and Kade McMillen adding one each.
Meanwhile, the Bruins did it the hard way, but they held off the Moose Jaw Warriors to earn a 6-5 victory in Game 1 of their first-round provincial series on Jan. 2 at Spectra Place.
Game 2 of the two-game, total-goal peewee series goes tonight in Moose Jaw.
On Wednesday, the Bruins led 3-2 after the first period and 5-2 after two.
Colton Schell opened the scoring only 89 seconds into the game, and Hayden Cutler made it 2-0 three minutes later.
Moose Jaw got on the board with a Brogan Townsend power play goal six minutes in, the first of four power play markers for the Warriors.
Schell scored again just eight seconds after the goal, but the Warriors got another man advantage goal from Ethan Douglas at 10:46 to make it 3-2.
The Bruins got two power play goals of their own in the second period, coming from Cole Fonstad at the three-minute mark and Cutler at 13:48.
The Warriors made a concerted comeback effort in the third, scoring three goals. The first came from Quinn Ingalls midway through the period, on the power play.
Schell completed a hat trick 54 seconds later, and the 6-3 score held until late in the period.
Hayden Wiebe scored with four minutes left and Cooper Cole added a power play goal with 36 seconds to play to bring the Warriors within one.
The Bruins played in a tournament on the weekend and will return to league action on Friday and Saturday, hosting the first-place Yorkton Terriers at 2:30 p.m. at Spectra Place both days.
